Plugin Classes

These Qt Core classes deal with shared libraries, (e.g. .so and DLL files), and with Qt plugins.

See the How to Create Qt Plugins page for more information..

See also the ActiveQt framework for Windows.

QIconEnginePlugin	The QIconEnginePlugin class provides an abstract base for custom QIconEngine plugins.
QImageIOPlugin	The QImageIOPlugin class defines an interface for writing an image format plugin.
QGenericPlugin	The QGenericPlugin class is an abstract base class for plugins.
QGenericPluginFactory	The QGenericPluginFactory class creates plugin drivers.
QStylePlugin	The QStylePlugin class provides an abstract base for custom QStyle plugins.
QLibrary	Loads shared libraries at runtime
Defining Plugins	The <QtPlugin> header file defines macros for defining plugins.
QPluginLoader	Loads a plugin at run-time